Conservatives (those on the right) believe that they are more wedded to the truth than are those on the left. What I would like to do is to explain why this is might well be true.
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The opinion of economists on the science is superfluous to their role and simply gets in the way of informed debate.
Why can most people count their own money and work out how much they can spend and then lose that ability and become delusional once they are in company?
The credibility of this segment of so-called news was zero to any intelligent person; even, I would hope, to those wedded to the conventional wisdom of man-made global warming.
Suppose a conventional wisdom is substantially astray from the truth (the way the world really is) and its impact is adverse. Never mind how it started, the important question is when and under what circumstances will it go away.
I started on the Left. My dad was a motor mechanic for the local ambulance service and voted for the British Labour Party. I think his affiliation was tribal, primarily based around ensuring that the working man was not exploited; an honourable objective and understandable in the context of the times in which he worked—the 1930s […]
Economic recovery, when set against the wasteful government expenditure we are having and the winding back of labour market flexibility by Julia Gillard, sets the scene for inflation. But it isn’t happening yet and is unlikely to break out in the immediate future.
No-one in those days, or up until recently, would have thought there might come a day when the debt of war would be replaced by the debt of climate ‘warming’, for which reparations were demanded.
If we are ever to stop governments wasting our money we have to begin to change the political lexicon. Only conservatives – in the media, in think tanks and in politics – have the philosophical wherewithal to begin the job and to persist with it.
A small amount of stimulus spending doing little good; does little harm. A large amount of spending doing little good; does harm, because it has to be financed on the other side and because it draws resources way from where they can be used more productively.
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